Build the Best Data Center Facility for Your Business

Acknowledgments

First and foremost, thank you to my teammates—past and present—on Cisco's Data Center Infrastructure Team: James Chillquist, Daniel Cole, Chris Gamez, Glenn Hasbrouck, John Lira, Mitch Lyman, Paul Martin, John McKee, Mete Osten, Christian Pama, Paul Paquette, Chris Posas, Bridget (Carino) Quast, Dave Rogers, Craig Schauman, and Kevin Squarcia. Each in their own way has shaped how we design and manage Cisco's Data Centers and therefore contributed in material ways to the contents of this book. I feel privileged to know and work with such talented and resourceful people.

Thank you to Andrew Broer, my friend and manager. He largely pioneered the distributed infrastructure model presented in Chapters 6 and 7 (and now standard in our ...